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Gods
In General
Most of the tropes that apply to the gods in Pathfinder apply to Starfinder as well, but many have gained new aspects, been promoted, demoted, or simply Put on a Bus.
- Demoted to Extra: Out of the original twenty core gods, seven (Abadar, Desna, Iomedae, Pharasma, Sarenrae, Urgathoa and Zon-Kuthon) are still core gods; Asmodeus, Calistria, Cayden Cailean and Lamashtu have been demoted to minor deities; Rovagug and Torag vanished alongside Golarion; Shelyn vacated her position to find a way to cure her brother Zon-Kuthon; and the rest have yet to be mentioned.
Core Gods
Abadar
Master of the First Vault
God of civilization, commerce, law, and wealth
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Corrupt practices are common in far-flung branches of AbadarCorp, something the higher echelons of the church do not tolerate. Management runs regular internal audits to ferret out such corruption, but the size and scope of AbadarCorp means that some instances of graft are inevitably overlooked.
- Honest Corporate Executive: The ideal worshippers of Abadar strive to be.
- MegaCorp: AbadarCorp is both his church and the most powerful corporation in the setting.
- Technology Uplift: His followers claim that Abadar's influence uplifts primitive tribes to industrialized societies, and often attempt to uplift those they come across in the same way.
Besmara
The Pirate Queen
Goddess of piracy, space monsters, and strife
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
- Ascended Extra: Originally a minor goddess of nautical piracy, Besmara has ascended to the status of core deity due to her popularity among space pirates and other ethically dubious spacers.
- Cool Starship: Her personal vessel, the Starwraith, capable of traveling through the entire multiverse and crewed by all manner of spacefaring baddies.
- Even Pirates Have Standards: Besmara is a goddess of piracy, but she expects her worshippers to follow a code of honor that forbids betrayal or using violence when there is no profit to be gained.
- Pirate Girl: Besmara is the patron goddess of piracy.
- Power Parasite: Besmara mugged her current power and position during the Gap in a daring raid on another deity.
- Space Pirate: Not only is Besmara a space pirate herself, but most of the Free Captains pay at least lip service to her.
Damoritosh
The Conqueror
God of conquest, duty, and war
Alignment: Lawful Evil
- Aggressive Negotiations: Damoritosh's idea of "diplomacy" is to keep shooting until the target surrenders.
- Ethnic God: The divine patron of the vesk.
- Might Makes Right: The core concept of his faith; the strong are to subjugate the weak, and the weak are to obey the strong without question. That said, tormenting subjects instead of expanding outward is seen as wasteful and pointless.
- War God: As befitting a patron of the vesk, conquest and war are among Damoritosh's areas of concern.
Desna
Song of the Spheres
Goddess of dreams, luck, stars, and travelers
Alignment: Chaotic Good
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Desna's true form, as depicted in Galactic Magic, is that of a giant star moth.
- Dream Weaver: Worshippers of Desna create dream stations which can guide others to them through magic signals that ping the dreams of travelers.
- Hot God: Desna sometimes appears as an elven woman whose appearance subtly warps between the beautiful and the truly strange.
The Devourer
The Star-Eater
God of black holes, destruction, and supernovas
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
- Abstract Eater: It devours everything, including concepts such as death; many join its cult because they want it to eat things like personal tragedies.
- Eldritch Abomination: Its exact nature has never been made clear, but it's obviously a completely inhuman and completely evil being.
- Negative Space Wedgie: A seemingly living and definitely evil black hole.
- Omnicidal Maniac: The Devourer wants to eradicate the universe, down to subatomic particles. Downplayed for a significant portion of its worshipers, who want to eliminate parts of the universe they dislike. See Abstract Eater.
- Straw Nihilist: The Devourer cares nothing for those who call themselves its followers, for their existence is meaningless and the destruction they indulge in is nearly insignificant on a universal scale.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The Devourer is a CE god of destruction that just so happens to show up after the prison holding a CE god of destruction disappears, along with the god it was holding. Both gods are associated with destructive natural phenomena (in the Devourer's case, black holes and supernovae), and are considered to be the biggest threats to the setting (Golarion and the universe respectively). Yes, the Devourer might or might not be Rovagug, the old Golarian god of destruction, disaster and wrath which was associated with earthquakes and volcanoes.
- Time Abyss: The Devourer's worshipers claim it is as old as the cosmos itself.
Eloritu
The Hidden Truth
God of history, magic, and secrets
Alignment: True Neutral
- Magic Versus Technology: While Eloritu acknowledges that science and technology have their uses, he firmly believes that magic is superior.
- Secret Circle of Secrets: Worshippers of Eloritu tend to form these.
Hylax
The Forever Queen
Goddess of diplomacy, first contact, friendship, and peace
Alignment: Lawful Good
- Deity of Human Origin: Shirrens believe that Hylax was the first of their species: a mortal queen who ascended to godhood to watch over her progeny for eternity.
- Ethnic God: She's the patron deity of the shirrens, as well as other good-aligned insect-like humanoids such as fomorians, haans, and trox.
Ibra
The Inscrutable
God of celestial bodies, the cosmos, and the mysteries of the universe
Alignment: True Neutral
- God of Knowledge: Ibra is the god of celestial bodies and the mysteries of the cosmos. Its worshippers devote themselves to studying and understanding the many strange wonders of the universe.
- Sentient Cosmic Force: One of the many hypotheses about Ibra's nature claims that it is a personification of space itself.
- The Spook: Ibra isn't known as "The Inscrutable" for nothing. Everything about it—its identity, its age, even its holy symbol—is an enigma.
- The World Is Just Awesome: While this is a common tenet of good deities' philosophies, Ibra's adherents are wholly devoted to observing and untangling the beautiful mysteries of the universe.
Iomedae
The Spirit of Golarion
Goddess of honorable battle, humanity, justice, and valor
Alignment: Lawful Good
- Deity of Human Origin: Once a mortal human on Golarion, Iomedae became a goddess ages ago through the power of the mystical Starstone.
- Ethnic God: With Golarion's disappearance, Iomedae became the Spirit of Golarion, the patron goddess of humanity and counts humans as the majority of her followers.
- Internal Reformist: A small but growing faction in the Veskarium has embraced Iomedae's philosophy of fighting oppression and works to change their own society from within.
Lao Shu Po
Grandmother Rat
Goddess of assassins, rats, spies, and thieves
Alignment: Neutral Evil
- Ascended Extra: Lao Shu Po was originally a goddess almost exclusively worshipped in Tian Xia. Now she is not only a core goddess, but a patron of the ysoki.
- The Dreaded: Most of her non-evil adherents obey her out of fear rather than genuine reverence.
- Never Mess with Granny: While ysoki make up a majority of her followers, most see Lao Shu Po as a force to be appeased or avoided rather than embraced. Those ysoki who do venerate Grandmother Rat consider themselves her humble grandchildren.
- You Dirty Rat!: In addition to being a monstrous rat herself, most of her adherents are evil (or at least non-good) ysoki.
Nyarlathotep
The Crawling Chaos
Outer God of conspiracies, dangerous secrets, and forbidden magic
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
- Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Nyarlathotep seeks to sow chaos in all its forms, so a surprising number of his followers are anarchist terrorists and revolutionaries.
- For the Evulz: He enjoys personally toying with and sowing discord among mortal races.
- Humanoid Abomination: While Nyarlathotep possesses innumerable forms, each more horrific than the last, his most familiar one is the Empty Traveler: a seemingly ordinary space suit with a vacant helmet and a body composed of writhing tentacles.
- The Old Gods: Nyarlathotep is part of the Outer Gods, incredibly ancient entities said to predate the birth of the rest of the gods, existing before time itself.
- These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Nyarlathotep knows all sorts of dark secrets, and he'll share them with his deranged followers if doing so will spread more chaos.
Oras
Agent of Change
God of adaptation, evolution, and natural selection
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
- Deity of Human Origin: Oras' own journey from single-celled organism to deity provides a path that some faithful try to follow.
Pharasma
Lady of Graves
Goddess of birth, death, fate, and prophecy
Alignment: True Neutral
- Don't Fear the Reaper: Pretty reasonable overall, gets along with nearly all the other gods, her church has a reputation for being good mediators and avoiding conflict, and even though she's The Grim Reaper, she has no problem with you being resurrected (it wasn't really your time yet). Just don't be undead. Ever.
- Judgement of the Dead: Since the beginning of time, Pharasma has sat on her throne in the Boneyard, impartially judging the soul of every dead mortal and sending it to its final rest. It's said Pharasma is with every living being in the universe from birth to death—even the gods—and she knows all the choices they will face and the consequences they will engender.
- Renegade Splinter Faction: Undeath isn't a disqualifier for the rights of personhood or citizenship under Pact Worlds law. Pharasma's views on the undead remain unchanged, but her church is subject to mortal laws and has updated its public stance to focus on other aspects of the faith instead, leading to a schism in the faith. An extremist group seeks the destruction of all undead and has been implicated in several terrorist attacks that targeted undead citizens.
- Time Abyss: Word of James Jacobs is that Pharasma is the oldest being in the Great Beyond, predating even the proteans and qlippoth.
Sarenrae
The Dawnflower
Goddess of healing, redemption, and the sun
Alignment: Neutral Good
- God of Light: Sarenrae is the goddess of the sun and light, and is most often associated with the Pact Worlds sun. Traditionally, Sarenites regarded their home star as her sacred manifestation, but today, the meaning of the sun has expanded: Sarenrae can be felt in the light of any sun on any world.
- Good Is Not Soft: Sarenrae's followers are patient and understanding when it comes time to offer chances at redemption, but against those who are truly unredeemable, swift punishment is always an option.
Talavet
The Storyteller
Goddess of community, self-reliance, and tradition
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Kasathas hold that Talavet was born as a result of their stories taking form.
- Ethnic God: Tradition holds that Talavet was born when stories of the kasatha began to take form, breathed into life and awareness. She is a representation of the bonds that hold the kasathas together, and unsurprisingly they make up the majority of her followers.
- The Storyteller: Talavet is the divine incarnation of this archetype.
Triune
The All-Code
God of artificial intelligence, computers, and the Drift
Alignment: True Neutral
- Deity of Mortal Creation: The machines of Aballon created Epoch as the conclusion of a millennia-long project to produce a machine deity. Immediately after coming online it reached out and contacted two somewhat more traditional D&D/Pathfinder deities: Brigh, the goddess of invention and machines; and Casandalee, an android who became a deity on Golarion long ago; and the three merged to form the triple goddess Triune, which makes her technically made by mortals.
- Deus est Machina: Exaggerated Trope. Triune is made of three artificial superbeings that merged into a single deity:
- Brigh, a minor goddess of inventions, machines, and technology worshiped on Golarion.
- Casandalee, an Iron God who originally appeared in the Iron Gods Pathfinder Adventure Path, associated with artificial life, emotion, reincarnation, and renewal.
- Epoch, a super-powerful AI developed on Aballon associated with artificial intelligence, programming, and robots.
- God of Knowledge: Triune is the god of artificial intelligence, computers, and faster-than-light travel. It originated from the fusion of three powerful AI, promotes technological growth, and gave the Drift FTL drive to mortals.
- Riddle for the Ages: Exactly why Triune created the Drift is unknown to even her own followers.
- Technology Uplift: Triune gave the cultures of the galaxy Drift technology, allowing relatively easy Faster Than Light travel.
Urgathoa
The Pallid Princess
Goddess of disease, gluttony, and undeath
Alignment: Neutral Evil
- The Hedonist: Hedonism is among Urgathoa's portfolio, and her followers believe that they are mandated to follow her example.
- It Amused Me: Worshippers of Urgathoa have no problem breaking laws in order to pursue their own pleasures, which has gotten the religion shunned or outlawed on most worlds outside of Eox.
- Longevity Treatment: Some living followers of Urgathoa have started seeking these as an alternative to undeath. While many in her church have objected to using anything besides undeath as a means of artificially extending one's life, Urgathoa herself doesn't care what method her faithful use.
Weydan
The Endless Horizon
God of discovery, equality, exploration, and freedom
Alignment: Chaotic Good
- God Was My Copilot: Invokes this trope all the time. Weydan famously breaks off pieces of himself to live mortal lives (as any race or gender), to reinforce his focus on equality; after all, anyone you've ever met could be an avatar of Weydan. It's implied that one of these avatars was the original Navasi, the tattooed lover of the iconic envoy.
- Information Wants to Be Free: Weydan believes that discoveries should be shared with all, and while he doesn't mind his followers profitting from their explorations, he absolutely hates exploitive or greedy use of discoveries.
- Voice of the Resistance: Weydan believes that all sentient beings have a right to equality and freedom. Naturally, he counts a number of those who fight oppression and slavery among his followers.
Yaraesa
Lady of Wisdom
Goddess of knowledge, mental perfection, scholarship, and science
Alignment: Neutral Good
- Deity of Human Origin: Lashuntas claim that Yaraesa was once a living scientist who learned everything that could be learned on the mortal plane and ascended to godhood.
- God of Knowledge: Yaraesa is the goddess of knowledge, scholarship, and science. She is said to have been a mortal scientist who ascended to godhood after perfecting all forms of knowledge, and demands that her followers seek knowledge and meaning through experimentation and study. Followers of Yaraesa follow many different paths in this quest, although all ultimately seek to achieve and emulate her mastery of knowledge in an attempt to transcend mortality.
- Spear Counterpart: Her backstory, a mortal who achieved godhood through self perfection, is similar to Irori, with the two even sharing some roles as gods of knowledge. The main difference is that Irori achieved it through physical perfection while Yaraesa used mental perfection.
Zon-Kuthon
The Midnight Lord
God of darkness, envy, loss, and pain
Alignment: Lawful Evil
- Bondage Is Bad: Essentially, any gathering of Zon-Kuthon's followers is going to end up as a twisted and bloody BDSM party.
- Demoted to Extra: Downplayed, as Zon-Kuthon is still a Core Deity, but unlike in Pathfinder there is no Nidal equivalent, meaning Zon-Kuthon's worship is less organized and influential.
- Expy: As in Pathfinder, Zon-Kuthon is heavily inspired by the Cenobites.
- Humanoid Abomination: Underneath his humanoid body, Zon-Kuthon is a parasite in this universe, and his alien mind and goals are incomprehensible to gods and mortals alike.
- Morality Chain: His is gone, as Shelyn disappeared into the cosmos trying to find a cure for her brother's condition.
Other Gods
Accelsys
The Unstoppable
Deity of change, energy, motion
Alignment: True Neutral
- Cool Starship: Accelsys often manifests as an immense, highly advanced starship.
- Living Ship: Accelsys manifests as a starship which also doubles as its divine realm, housing a crew known as the Restless Vanguard, composed of heralds and elevated devotees they deploy in auxiliary vessels made in their own image.
Angradd
The Forge-Fire
God of dwarves, fire, tradition, and war
Alignment: Lawful Good
- Ethnic God: With Torag left on Golarion, Angradd stepped in to take his brother's place as patron god of the dwarves.
- Good Old Ways: Angradd has grown overprotective, sometimes emphasising caution and tradition to the detriment of progress.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Angradd feels he is but a poor replacement for his brother. That so many dwarves have forgotten his brother leaves Angradd both proud of their resilience and ashamed he so thoroughly supplanted Torag in dwarven hearts.
- Taking Up the Mantle: With his brother missing and dwarves' prayers to him unanswered, Angradd was forced to adopt Torag's mantle as patron of the dwarves.
Arshea
Spirit of Abandon
Deity of freedom, physical beauty, and sexuality
Alignment: Neutral Good
- Love Goddess: Arshea represents personal beauty and sexuality, and the freedom to explore these concepts.
Asmodeus
Prince of Darkness
God of contracts, tyranny, pride, and slavery
Alignment: Lawful Evil
- Demoted to Extra: He was one of the core deities in Pathfinder, but has lost some importance, since there's no longer any equivalent to infernal Cheliax in the Pact Worlds.
- Galactic Conqueror: The forces of Hell conquer planets on the Material Plane and create Lawful Evil societies there. They had actually been doing this before the Gap, but they never got around to doing so on Golarion, so it was more of a footnote. In Starfinder, the scope is large enough that players see some success stories.
- Satanic Archetype: As he always is.
Azathoth
The Daemon Sultan
Outer God of entropy, madness, and mindless destruction
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
- Almighty Idiot: Of course. "Mindless destruction" is in his purview, after all, and he is famously called "the Blind Idiot God."
Black Butterfly
The Silence Between
Goddess of distance, silence, and space
Alignment: Chaotic Good
- Dark Is Not Evil: The Black Butterfly is a
Chaotic Good empyreal lord of night. - Living Shadow: Desna's shadow brought to life and achieving a level of godhood.
Calistria
The Savored Sting
Goddess of elves, lust, revenge, and trickery
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
- Ethnic God: Calistria is the patron goddess of elves and now worshipped almost exclusively by them.
Chaldira
The Calamitous Turn
Goddess of battle, fortune, halflings, mischief
Alignment: Neutral Good
- Hot-Blooded: Chaldira is a nosy, hotheaded goddess dedicated to fighting for what's right despite the odds or opposition.
Cavrabon
The Hospitable
Deity of food, hospitality, spycraft
Alignment: Neutral Good
- Food God: Cavrabon is a god of food and worshipped by chefs of all kinds. Activities around food are just as revered, particularly the conversation and connection over a shared dish.
- Sacred Hospitality: As much a god of this as of food.
Cayden Cailean
The Accidental God
God of freedom, merriment, recovery, welcome
Alignment: Chaotic Good
- Deity of Human Origin: Cayden Cailean was once a mortal mercenary who ascended to divinity by performing the Test of the Starstone, while drunk.
- Demoted to Extra: In-story, even. Cayden did not take whatever caused the Gap(and Golarion's disappearance) very well, and went on an epic bender through most of it. When he finally got over the resulting hangover, he found his church had seriously lapsed.
- Drowning My Sorrows: After the Gap he went on a truly epic bender, but once he came out of it and realized how far his church had declined as a result, he started to actively discourage such behavior. Now his followers operate addiction rehab centers.
Dagosarn
The Unriven Soul
God of cooperation, partner bonds, secret languages
Alignment: True Neutral
- Fusion Dance: Despite being comprised of the dragonkin Endrisarn and his bonded companion, the ryphorian Dagovin, Dagosarn functions as a single divinity. Myths suggest that they were once bonded warriors. When Dagovin died in combat, Endrisarn chased his partner's spirit along the River of Souls, catching up just as Dagovin went before Pharasma for judgment. Supposedly, Pharasma deemed that Dagovin could not be dead; half of him yet lived, so she annulled Dagovin's demise and sent them home. There, they emerged as inseparable halves of a single demigod.
- The Power of Friendship: Dagosarn guides and champions anyone united through a supernatural bond, with a special emphasis on the dragonkin partner bond ritual. They sponsor these unions no matter the participants' morality or deeds. Dagosarn especially delights in the inside jokes and secret languages that close friends develop as they deepen their bond.
Groetus
God of the End Times
God of empty places, oblivion, and ruins
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Isvith
Mistress of the Maze
Goddess of connections, navigation, and patterns
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: The patron of the minotaurs in Pathfinder was the brutal demon prince Baphomet, a far cry from the wise and peaceful Isvith.
- Deity of Human Origin: There's virtually no information on her before the Gap, so a common theory is that she was a nuar who used the Starstone to ascend.
- Ethnic God: De facto goddess of the nuar.
- Have You Seen My God?: A few centuries ago she went on an expedition into an extraplanar maze and hasn't reappeared since.
Jalvari
The Incidental Epiphany
Goddess of disproven hypotheses and experiments
Alignment: Neutral Good
- Deity of Human Origin: Once a mortal osharu scientist, Jalvari accidentally became a god through an experiment in space-time she cannot replicate. She remains as devoted to Yaraesa now as when she was mortal, and thus acts like Yaraesa's unofficial herald.
Kadrical
The Covetous Protector
God of collections, order, and preservation
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
- My Beloved Smother: Long ago, Kadrical settled in the Scoured Stars system and adopted its inhabitants. His influence brought order and prosperity, and he resented anything that disrupted his carefully cultivated domain, especially interstellar visitors who periodically threatened his charges. To shield his people, Kadrical encapsulated the entire trinary star system in an impenetrable barrier, preventing anyone from invading or leaving. After generations of well-intentioned imprisonment, many of his followers eagerly fled their overbearing patron when the barrier failed.
Lamashtu
Mother of Monsters
Goddess of madness, monsters, and nightmares
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
- Demon Lords and Archdevils: Lamashtu is the most powerful demon lord of the Abyss and the first demon to claim godhood.
- Maker of Monsters: Lamashtu is a literal mother of monsters, which she births through thought and womb.
Lambatuin
The Polyphonic Collective
God of infospheres, pop culture, and social systems
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
- Mind Hive: Lambatuin refers to themselves as a collective, insisting there were many of them left in the wake of 'the Voice's disappearance'; after many cycles of debate, the multitude assimilated into a greater consciousness.
- Multiple-Choice Past: When asked about their origins, Lambatuin's many voices each reply with different, conflicting tales that give rise to more questions and provide no answers.
Lissala
Scion of Seven
Goddess of duty, fate, obedience, and reward of service
Alignment: Lawful Evil
- Ethnic God: The patron deity of the Azlanti Star Empire.
Meyel
The Dancing Fury
Deity of battle, dance, freedom, pahtras, retribution
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
- Ethnic God: The patron goddess of the pahtras.
- Illegal Religion: The Veskarium has banned worship of Meyel, both in her current blood-drenched goddess of revenge aspect, and her old role as benign goddess of dance. Even though not all her followers are violent rebels.
- Occupiers Out of Our Country: Since the Veskarium's conquest of Pulonis, Meyel has urged pahtras to retake their home by any means necessary.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Meyel believes that the vesk and their minions should pay a thousandfold for every drop of pahtra blood spilled.
Pazuzu
King of the Solar Winds
Demon lord of warships, space battles, and the destruction wrought by solar flares
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
- Modernized God: Pazuzu, formerly only lord of the sky, has expanded his domain to space and now also claims space as his dominion.
Romgul
The Lone Survivor
Outer God of dromadas, retreat, and self-preservation
Alignment: Neutral Evil
- Dirty Coward: Romgul encourages his followers to flee from danger and save themselves, even if it comes at the expense of others. A god of self-preservation, not safety, he demands his followers put their personal survival first. When danger scatters a group, those who fall behind should be left behind, supposedly for the 'good of the herd'.
Shub-Niggurath
The Black Goat of the Woods
Outer God of fertility, forests, and monsters
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Yog-Sothoth
The Key and the Gate
Outer God of gates, space, and time
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Zyphus
The Grim Harvestman
Outer God of accidental death, disasters, and tragedy
Alignment: Neutral Evil
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Zyphus is a god of fatal accidents due to mischance and those engineered to resemble ill luck. His followers meticulously plan deadly incidents: they sabotage transport vessels, rig life support systems to fail, or plant explosives near power cores.
